Fly expert on his discovery of a new indigenous fly species
Otago Museum’s Honorary Curator of Entomology, Associate Professor Steve Kerr spends his days in nature around Otago looking for flies. He says New Zealand has species that you can’t see anywhere else. In fact he discovered a new species recently which he has called Empidadelpha pokekeao which means ‘dark cloud’ in te reo Māori. Steve Kerr tells us all about this new fly and why he loves the winged insect.



